2014 Twins Game Logs

2014 Game 32: Twins at Natives

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As usual, the Twins are within a game of .500 as today's game begins. Two pitchers having a rough go of things - Danny Salazar and Ricky Nolasco - will try to get back on track today in what looks like it might be a season-long four-way battle for second place in the Central (yes, I know it's too early to assume such a thing, but if ESPN can talk about the AL East race, I'm allowed).

Photo courtesy of Erik Drost

34 thoughts on “2014 Game 32: Twins at Natives”

  5. Will this be a four-way battle for 2nd, or will it be for not-last? At this rate, I can see any non-Tiger team finishing anywhere in the division

    1. All things starting rotation considering, I'll be happy with not last.

      1. A this point so far, I'm expecting a 4th+ finish. I'd like 75 wins. I feel like finishing 75-87 (.460) is doable, and it'd be a 11 win upgrade over last year.

        Of course, it all depends on the pitching not being awful and the offense continuing to be productive. So, pretty much all baseball things. It's a very general statement.

  7. Dick Bremer is going to bring up "Kubel is going to bunt" every at bat until Kubel does it.

        1. Whoa, geez, sorry about that. I was too sick to pay attention to what swyping was doing. I was saying Kubel should wait until Dick isn't in the booth to lay down that bunt.

    2. Why doesn't he do it? Why don't any of them do it? Punish the defense for vacating a spot. I would have them do it every time. The whole idea is to not make an out. If getting a bunt down gets you on base even half the time, it's well worth it. That would be a 1.000 OPS.

  8. I saw today that Mauer says his back spasms are pretty intense. Should we start a pool for when he finally goes on the dl?

    1. But you know he'll always keep moving
      You know he's never gonna stop moving
      'Cause he's rolling, he's the rolling stone

  14. Incredible stat

    Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino
    Nolasco's exit makes it 265 games without a 10K game by a #mntwins pitcher. (Liriano 7/18/12)

  16. oooooh Santana with an unlucky bounce or that would have been a stand up triple

  17. I loved the dudebro trying to interfere with the Cleveland thirdbaseguy by waving hit cap trying to catch the ball.

  21. It would have been nice to, you know, have an actual outfielder out there for a defensive replacement instead of a INFer trying to get by.
    Its the Jason Bartlett situation repeat, but with a better bat.

    1. So you think we would have been better off with Colabello out there instead of Escobar? Granted, he would have been playing RF instead of LF, but it could have just as easily hurt the Twins at other times. Ever since Arcia and Willingham got hurt, that's what we've been playing with. And it's not like Willingham would be a drastic improvement. He's got more experience but Escobar is much, much faster.

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